Dear members of the Fordham community,

Last week, The Fordham Ram published an article that provided inaccurate information about the Department of Theology’s faculty hiring process. Theology Department Chair Dr. Brenna Moore authored a letter to the editor that clarifies the department’s standard practices and corrects the false statements made in the original article. Shortly after publishing Dr. Moore’s letter, The Ram also took down the misleading article from its website.

In response, The Ram and its editorial board apologizes to the Department of Theology and to the Fordham community as a whole for facilitating the dissemination of inaccurate information. We at The Ram are committed to accuracy in all that we do and believe strongly in our mission to provide reliable information to the entire Fordham community. Last week, we failed in that mission when an article with various inaccuracies made it through our editorial process. 

The article with inaccuracies appeared in the first issue produced by The Ram’s 107th editorial board. Our relative inexperience does not excuse our mistake but reminds us of how we as new editors must work doubly hard to oversee the creation of the accurate and fair reporting that our community expects from our newspaper.

We want to assure readers of The Ram that we are working diligently to identify and rectify the causes of these errors to ensure that a similar mistake does not happen again. 

We remain committed to delivering reporting of the highest standards to the Fordham community, just as The Ram has done since its founding in 1918. We remain grateful for your readership as we dedicate ourselves to improving our coverage of the Fordham community throughout the remainder of Volume 107. 

With humility,

The Fordham Ram Editorial Board